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Forceful vaccine messages backfire with holdouts – how can it be done better? | The Conversation
by S. Shyam Sundar
5 days ago
With the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the continued surge of the delta variant, governments across the world…
Anti-Vax Covid Deathbed Videos Are Wildly Popular. They’re Also Disturbing. | The New Republic
by Eleanor Cummins
5 days ago
On July 18, Brytney Cobia, a physician in Birmingham, Alabama, took to Facebook to talk about caring for Covid-19 patients.…
Pandemic tech left out public health experts. Here’s why that needs to change. | MIT Technology Review
by Lindsay Muscato
7 days ago
Exposure notification apps were developed at the start of the pandemic, as technologists raced to help slow the spread of…
Lies and Democracy | Knight First Amendment Institute
September 14, 2021
“No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no one,…
These doctors and nurses share COVID-19 falsehoods. They can become misinformation superspreaders | The Philadelphia Inquirer
by Jason Laughlin and Maddie Hanna
September 13, 2021
The number of COVID-19 cases in the county was rising sharply, Scott Levy, chief medical officer at one of Bucks…
First Person: A refuge from COVID misinformation | UN News
by UN News
September 13, 2021
Hadeel Al-Zoubi is a Senior Camp Assistant working in two camps (Za’atari and Azraq) that accommodate Syrians who have fled…
Adult vaccinations such as tetanus, shingles, pneumonia are often forgotten | The Washington Post
by Marlene Cimons
September 7, 2021
As children grow up, pediatricians routinely remind their parents when vaccinations are due. But there are few regular notices that nudge…
Spanish-language Covid disinformation is aimed at Latinos as delta surges | NBC Latino
by Carmen Sesin
September 7, 2021
On a recent show on Actualidad, a Miami AM radio station, the host was promoting a false cure for Covid-19:…
Ivermectin misinformation has poisoned Amazon’s platform, with few fixes planned | The Verge
by Dieter Bohn
September 1, 2021
Earlier this week, I started a search on Amazon and mistyped, entering just two letters in: “iv.” Amazon then helpfully…